Sean: OK, I'm turning this into a RAMBLE thread, as you will see in a post further down in this thread.
You know the drill, I think.
So, I wake up yesterday morning to play my usual daily fix of Final Fantasy VII on my pre-owned guaranteed used PS2. I know it's guaranteed because I paid an extra eleven bucks at EB to prove it. Anyway, I decide to start a new game, so I need to switch discs...the drive is jammed.
Won't open. This is the same thing that happened to me the first time I got a used PS2 from them (Christmas) and I had to wait a month before I could get it replaced. I didn't feel like waiting a month for someone to trade-in a broken PS2. So I just packaged all of the PS2 shit I bought from them up and took it in, hoping to get a cash refund thanks to the additional insurance I purchased from them, since the salesman told Mom (who bought it as a gift for me) we could do so. Stupid EB bastards give me a $150 gift card and that's it. Motherfuckers.
So, while walking around the mall trying to figure out who I should try and sell the gift card to, I get a bright idea. I walk back in. A sign glares at me from the window: "Pre-owned X-Boxes: $99. Valid 3/10/05 to 3/31/05." SCORE! Nope...they're actually $129. Something about the difference between used and pre-owned. So I leave again, swearing I will never walk into an EB again.
Ten minutes later I go in, grab a brand new cobalt blue Game Boy Advance SP. They were out of DS's (suprised?) and PSP's were going for $250. I searched through the used and new games looking for something good. What did I find? Twenty-eight used copies of Megaman Battle Network, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. I grabbed the two latter and maxed the gift card out. (And yes, I bought the additional insurance.)
So, in sum, I've deduced that Sony still can't make a machine that runs more than a year, Nintendo is still #1, and EB is evil. Now all I need to figure out is which cheap used GBA games to score next, like Super Mario World. And if they remake Final Fantasy III or Earthbound for this thing, I'll be in heaven.